Free Piano Sheet Music from the Great Operas
November 3, 2008
Guillaume Tell is an opera in four acts by Gioachino Rossini to a French libretto by Etienne de Jouy and Hippolyte Bis, based on Friedrich Schiller’s play Wilhelm Tell. It was first performed at the Théâtre de l’Académie Royale de Musique onAugust 3, 1829. Based on the legend of William Tell, this opera was Rossini’s last, even though the composer lived for nearly forty more years.
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Overture to William Tell for Easy Piano Solo by Gioachino Antonio Rossini
Allegro Vivace from the Overture to William Tell for Advanced Piano Solo by Rossini
Carmen is a French opéra comique by Georges Bizet. Since the 1880s it has been one of the world’s most performed operas and a staple of the operatic repertoire. Carmen appears as number four on Opera America’s list of the 20 most-performed operas in North America.
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March of the Toreadors for Easy for Piano Solo by Georges Bizet
Prelude from Carmen for Easy Piano Solo by Georges Bizet
Aida, an Arabic female name meaning “visitor” or “returning”; a Swahili, female name meaning “reward”) is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italianlibretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni, based on a scenario written by French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette (although there are scholars who argue that the scenario was really written by Temistocle Solera). It was first performed at the Khedivial Opera House in Cairo on December 24, 1871 under the baton of Giovanni Bottesini.
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Triumphal March from Aida for Intermediate Piano Solo from FreeSheetPianoMusic.com
Orpheus in the Underworld, opéra bouffe (or opéra féerie in its revised version), is an operetta by Jacques Offenbach. The French text was written by Ludovic Halévy and later revised by Hector-Jonathan Crémieux.
The work is said to be the first classical full-length operetta. Offenbach’s earlier operettas were small-scale one-act works, since the law in France did not allow certain genres of full-length works. Orpheus was not only longer, but more musically adventurous than Offenbach’s earlier pieces.
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The Galop/Can-Can for Piano Solo by Jacques Offenbach
Lohengrin is a romantic opera (or music drama) in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner…
Unlike most other great opera composers, Wagner wrote both the scenario and libretto for his works…
One of the most popular wedding marches played as the bride’s processional in English-speaking countries, popularly known as “Here Comes the Bride”, takes its melody from the “Bridal Chorus” of Lohengrin. In the opera, it is sung as the bride and groom leave the ceremony and go into the wedding chamber. The calamitous marriage of Lohengrin and Elsa, which reaches irretrievable breakdown twenty minutes after the chorus has been sung, has failed to discourage this widespread use of the piece.
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Here Comes the Bride for Easy Piano Solo by Richard Wagner
Bridal Chorus (Here Comes the Bride) for Intermediate Piano Solo by Richard Wagner
